In order to encourage open education in European Member States, the European Commission (EC) launched the Communication "Opening up Education– Innovative Teaching and Learning for all through New Technologies and OER" in September 2013. The Communication brings to the fore the advantages that digital technologies generate for widening participation in education and stimulating innovation in learning and teaching through digital content with a focus on OER.
The OpenEdu Project is being carried out by IPTS and was commissioned by the Directorate General for Education and Culture to provide scientific support to the Communication. Its main goal is to document and analyse the scope and reach of open education in higher education (from now on HE) and to develop a framework which to help European HE institutions to become more open and deal with the related challenges and opportunities.
By defining open education and both its core and transversal dimensions the framework promotes transparency and proposes a common language for open education in Europe. It is aimed at universitie’s decision makers (rectors, vice-chancellors or anyone in charge of making decisions on open education at an institutional level).
Open education is often understood as open educational resources (OER) and at times as open research data. The framework aims to show that contemporary open education goes beyond OER and research outputs to embrace strategic decisions, teaching methods, collaborations between individuals and institutions and different ways of making content available, all of these having ICT as an enabler .
The framework is made of 10 dimensions:
Core dimensions: ACCESS, CONTENT, PEDAGOGY, RECOGNITION, COLLABORATION, RESEARCH
Transversal dimensions: BUSINESS MODELS AND STRATEGY, TECHNOLOGY, QUALITY, ACCESS
Each dimension has:
A DEFINITION
A RATIONALE
COMPONENTS
STATEMENTS
Your dimension is CONTENT. Please kindly engage with your expert team to agree/disagree and make comments on our your dimension at all these 4 levels. Consensus should be sought although not essential.
Thank you for participation.
The OpenEdu Project is being carried out by IPTS and was commissioned by the Directorate General for Education and Culture to provide scientific support to the Communication. Its main goal is to document and analyse the scope and reach of open education in higher education (from now on HE) and to develop a framework which to help European HE institutions to become more open and deal with the related challenges and opportunities.
By defining open education and both its core and transversal dimensions the framework promotes transparency and proposes a common language for open education in Europe. It is aimed at universitie’s decision makers (rectors, vice-chancellors or anyone in charge of making decisions on open education at an institutional level).
Open education is often understood as open educational resources (OER) and at times as open research data. The framework aims to show that contemporary open education goes beyond OER and research outputs to embrace strategic decisions, teaching methods, collaborations between individuals and institutions and different ways of making content available, all of these having ICT as an enabler .
The framework is made of 10 dimensions:
Core dimensions: ACCESS, CONTENT, PEDAGOGY, RECOGNITION, COLLABORATION, RESEARCH
Transversal dimensions: BUSINESS MODELS AND STRATEGY, TECHNOLOGY, QUALITY, ACCESS
Each dimension has:
A DEFINITION
A RATIONALE
COMPONENTS
STATEMENTS
Your dimension is CONTENT. Please kindly engage with your expert team to agree/disagree and make comments on our your dimension at all these 4 levels. Consensus should be sought although not essential.
Thank you for participation.
Best wishes,
The OpenEdu team